Who knew all it took to declassify documents was the blink of an eye?!
On Wednesday night, Donald Trump workshopped his latest excuse for allegedly illegally moving all those top secret docs to Mar-a-Lago, and weâre going to call this one the Barbra Eden defense.
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Fresh off his latest legal defeat â earlier in the day a three-judge panel ruled that the FBI may use the documents in its ongoing criminal investigation â Trump told Fox Newsâ Sean Hannity that as president, he could declassify things just by âthinking about it.â
âYou have said on Truth Social, a number of times, you did declassify,â Hannity said.
âI did declassify,â Trump responded.
âWhat was your process to declassify?â Hannity asked, to which Trump said, âThere doesnât have to be a process, as I understand it. You know, thereâs different people, say different things.â
âIf youâre the president of the United States, you can declassify just by saying, âitâs declassifiedâ â even by thinking about it.â
Itâs as simple as that!
âThere doesnât have to be a process ⌠I declassified everythingâ â Trump on how he declassified documents (this is false â there is a process Trump didnât follow) pic.twitter.com/ehX8QqTnmB
â Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 22, 2022
Regardless, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that the, âdeclassification argument is a red herring because declassifying an official document would not change its content or render it personal.â
Still, itâs made for some good responses:
Hi ?. House Intelligence Committee Chair here.
Trump just claimed he could declassify things by saying ââitâs declassified,â even by thinking about it.â
I know he says heâs a big âthinkerâ and all, but thatâs not how any of this works. Not by any stretch of the imagination.
â Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) September 22, 2022
âHereâs how I did it, Sean Hannity!â pic.twitter.com/JhP6x7NfSo
â Homer (@JournalistReal) September 22, 2022
Method 2: pic.twitter.com/luEypXm2Nv
â the Wisest ofGuys (@johnforchione) September 22, 2022
â Tom Roy đşđ¸ (@tomjroy) September 22, 2022
âThese are not the classified documents you are looking forâŚI used the force to declassify them!â pic.twitter.com/PSfktpk6bv
â AZSteve the Wanton Killerđťđľđđ (@AZSteve54) September 22, 2022
Itâs so cool how Trump goes on Hannity and just incriminates himself some more.
â The USA Singers (@TheUSASingers) September 22, 2022
Iâm very very excited for tomorrow, when we will find out which members of Congress embrace the idea that Trump can telepathically declassify documents.
â Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) September 22, 2022
Trump saying you can declassify documents just by saying they are declassified reminds me of Michael Scott thinking you declare bankruptcy by yelling it. https://t.co/EWqozVIaeE pic.twitter.com/1iv7dpmDxj
â Brandon âFootsâ (@welplookathim) September 22, 2022
Meanwhile, Trump is also defending himself against other allegations of fraud related to shady real estate dealings, and weâre guessing those canât be wished away, either.
abfab
Not even Doctor Bellows could help this sick POS. Just die already!
Fahd
Trouble is that the tangerine Palpatine’s argument will fly with the corrupt majority on the Supreme Court. …Hell in a handbasket.
humble charlie
let’s hope he next psychically teleports himself to russia where he belongs (since he can’t teleport himself to nazi germany in the 1930’s).
abfab
I hope everyone of us is watching the new Ken Burns series. History repeating. Unreal.
Kangol2
It’s so uncanny and unnerving at times, @abfab. I have a friend who said it was wrong to compare Don the Con to Hitler but after watching that series, this person is now saying, I wish I’d known this history. I mean, it’s in books, it isn’t obscured, so everyone should see the historical parallels between then and now, and the creeping fascism we’ve been dealing with. Hell, Don the Con even attempted a coup to overthrow a legitimate US before the entire world’s eyes!
bachy
The American public needs to understand that
dictatorser…. presidents can do whatever they wantâ no questions asked!!RIGay
He’ll walk.
God, please prove me wrong.
LMG
Please don’t insult Genie by using her as “Orange Jesus’s” comparative for telepathy. I wish that Donald Trump would go straight to Hell. Don’t even pass Go…. Darn…nothing happened…yet…
SoloMcDaniel
He doesn’t look well in this video. Either his head has gotten smaller or his hair has gotten bigger.
Invader7
Both !
abfab
POS inflated his worth.
POS inflated the size of his inaugural crowd.
POS inflated the size of his dick.
POS tried to inflate the size of his tiny little hands.
Itâs now time to deflate this gross POS.
CNY1983
sean hannity was good toilet paper for dumps bullshit.
whos doing hannitys make-up? a funeral director?
Bengali
Hannity’s mouth is always open and ready to receive Trump’s entrails.
Diplomat
Hilarious. Though I think the ever bumbling Aunt Clara from Bewitched might be more fitting. She had an endearing way of casting spells that went sideways most every time.
Kangol2
Don the Con grows more rotten and stale by the day. When will he finally be heading to prison to spend the rest of his miserable, hateful, treasonous life?
johncp56
How F!@#$%^&*(&^%$#@KING dumb does he think we are, that moron was Pres!!
Tami
The main thing I got from this article is how hot Barbara Eden was in that show đ